Lincoln

• Verfasst von: Johnston, Steven [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Lincoln
• Titelzusatz: the ambiguous icon
• Verf.angabe: Steven Johnston
• Ausgabe: [Paperback-Ausgabe]
• Verlagsort: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• E-Jahr: 2021
• Jahr: [2021]
• Umfang: xix, 215 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Modernity and political thought
• Fussnoten: Erstmals erschienen 2018 als Hardback-Ausgabe ; Includes bibliographical references and index ; Erscheinungsdatum der Paperback-Ausgabe ermittelt
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5845-6
• ISBN: 1-5381-5845-0
• Schlagwörter: (s)Präsident / (s)Staatspräsident
• Dokumenttyp: Biografie
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Philosophy
• Sach-SW: Political and social views
• Sach-SW: Presidents
• Sach-SW: collective biographies
• Sach-SW: Biographies
• Sach-SW: Biographies
• Sach-SW: Biographies
• Geograph. SW: United States
• K10plus-PPN: 1815693797

Abstract

Introduction : Lincoln's ambiguity -- Lincoln's decisionism and the politics of elimination -- Democratic ironies of Lincoln's cinematic exceptionalism -- A "humble offering" : the (first) Lincoln Memorial -- Lincoln's persistent racial ambivalence : colonization -- What to the Indian is the Gettysburg Address? -- American exceptionalism or American narcissism? The second inaugural -- Conclusion : Lincoln's tragic revenge.

Abstract

In Lincoln: The Ambiguous Icon, Steven Johnston interrogates Lincoln's political thought and practice, reinterpreting the Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural, Lincoln's exercise of sovereign power and commitment to colonization, and some of the more popular depictions of Lincoln in film, monuments, and memorials that both conceal and reveal the terrible ambiguity of this marginally understood American figure--back cover